Ancient History for Colleges And High Schools
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Each of the stages was dedicated to one of the seven planets, or spheres. (The sun and moon were reckoned as planets. ) Various means were adopted to give the platforms the conventional tints assigned to the different planetary bodies. Thus the stages sacred to the sun and moon were covered respectively with plates of gold and silver.^ 1 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XVIII. Art. I. P. 6.
102 THE BABYLONIAN MONARCHY.
The chapel, or shrine proper, surmounted the uppermost stage, and,... as described by Herodotus, must have been sumptuous in the extreme. The tower, thus crowned by the sanctuary and zoned with all the planetary colors, with the gilded stages glis- tening, as the inscriptions declare, " like the sun, " presented a BIRS-NIMRUD. (Rum of the great Temple of the Seven Spheres, near Babylon. ) splendid and imposing appearance, that struck every beholder with astonishment and awe.
An inscribed cylinder discovered under the corner of one of the stages (the Babylonians always buried records beneath the corners of their public edifices) informs us that this temple was a restoration by Nebuchadnezzar of a very ancient one, which in his day had become, from " extreme old age, " a heap of rubbish.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Each of the stages was dedicated to one of the seven planets, or spheres. (The sun and moon were reckoned as planets. ) Various means were adopted to give the platforms the conventional tints assigned to the different planetary bodies. Thus the stages sacred to the sun and moon were covered respectively with plates of gold and silver.^ 1 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XVIII. Art. I. P. 6.
102 THE BABYLONIAN MONARCHY.
The chapel, or shrine proper, surmounted the uppermost stage, and,... as described by Herodotus, must have been sumptuous in the extreme. The tower, thus crowned by the sanctuary and zoned with all the planetary colors, with the gilded stages glis- tening, as the inscriptions declare, " like the sun, " presented a BIRS-NIMRUD. (Rum of the great Temple of the Seven Spheres, near Babylon. ) splendid and imposing appearance, that struck every beholder with astonishment and awe.
An inscribed cylinder discovered under the corner of one of the stages (the Babylonians always buried records beneath the corners of their public edifices) informs us that this temple was a restoration by Nebuchadnezzar of a very ancient one, which in his day had become, from " extreme old age, " a heap of rubbish.
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